bringing about a crisis in the old regime.'

Social tensions, political conflicts and economic depression were all to a

degree, important as one another in bringing about a crisis in the old regime of France.

Various social, political and economic conditions, contributed equally to the

revolution in France. These conditions included much dissatisfaction among the lower

and middle classes, interest in the new ideas of government and financial problems

Of all the tensions and conflicts , the Ancient Regime was perhaps the most

deeply rooted. The ancient regime was the old system of government, the old order of

things, before the revolution, and it divided French society up into three estates. The

first comprised of the clergy, the second the nobility and the rest of the population was

classified as the third estate. Not only was the third estate heterogeneous, comprising

of the bourgeoisie(lawyers, doctors, businessman, merchants, factory owners) peasants

and beggars, but all three estates. There were many

brought on by the inequality of the social system, the economic conditions of the day

causing unemployment, which led to mobs of unemployed people forming in the cities

repeated, with a severe winter making things worse. The frozen rivers affected trade,

weather and taxes) and the anti-monarchic mood at the time, and was one of the first

were, in effect, propping up the ancient regime.1

despotism. This event was a result of the economic conditions (caused by bad

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